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Hurricane Katrina 10th Anniversary | August 21, 2015 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS

August 23, 2015
"We got to know our neighbors in the surrounding community in a way we probably wouldn’t have otherwise, because we did all have to work through it together. And so in these last 10 years I would say we have been much more part of the community where we’ve been a building for over a hundred years," says David duPlantier, dean of Episcopal Christ Church Cathedral in New Orleans. More →

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The Dalai Lama at 80 | August 21, 2015 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS

August 23, 2015
FRED DE SAM LAZARO, correspondent: In just the past few weeks, he’s appeared at a music festival in England, a presidential library in Houston, and a stadium near Los Angeles. There is perhaps no world figure today with a more diverse base of fans and well-wishers.(speaking to His Holiness the Dalai Lama): Why are you so popular globally? Why are you a rock star?HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA: I don’t know. I never pay attention about that, why people praise me.DE SAM LAZARO: And even as he celebrated his 80th birthday, he said he’s not concerned about another matter that’s on many...
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Islamic experts' declaration urges Muslims to fight global warming - Religion News Service

August 18, 2015
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – A group of Islamic experts urged the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims on Tuesday to do more to fight global warming, in a new example of religious efforts to galvanize action before a U.N. climate summit in Paris in December.In June, the world’s most important Christian leader, Pope Francis, urged world leaders to hear “the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor” in an encyclical on the environment for the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics.Unlike Roman Catholicism, Islam is a highly decentralized religion with no single recognized authority. But Muslim experts...
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